Seanad Bye-Elections Act, 1930
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Nomination of candidates at bye-elections. |
4.—(1) A candidate for election at a Seanad bye-election shall be nominated in writing and such written nomination shall be subscribed by two members of the Oireachtas as proposer and seconder respectively and by ten other members of the Oireachtas as assenting to the nomination. | |
(2) Every candidate shall be nominated by a separate nomination paper and the nomination paper shall be in the prescribed form and shall contain the particulars required by such form, including a statement of the qualifications of the candidate for membership of Seanad Eireann under Article 30 of the Constitution. | ||
(3) Sub-section (3) of section 3 of the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1927 (No. 33 of 1927), is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that no nomination of a candidate at a Seanad bye-election shall be valid or complete unless such candidate or his proposer or seconder on his behalf shall have delivered to the Seanad returning officer before twelve o'clock noon on the last day for receiving nominations at such bye-election an affidavit in the form set out in the Schedule to the said Act sworn by such candidate in the presence of a commissioner for oaths (as defined by the said Act) of a peace commissioner to whom he is personally known. | ||
(4) The Seanad returning officer shall provide and furnish on demand to the Clerk of the Dáil and the Clerk of the Seanad respectively a sufficient number of forms of nomination paper and the said Clerks shall make such forms available on demand to members of the Oireachtas. | ||
(5) A candidate may, by notice in writing signed by him and delivered to the Seanad returning officer before twelve o'clock noon on the last day for receiving nominations, withdraw his nomination, and the proposer and seconder of a candidate who is out of Ireland may, by notice in writing signed by them and containing a statement of the absence of such candidate from Ireland and delivered to the Seanad returning officer before twelve o'clock noon on the last day for receiving nominations, withdraw the nomination of such candidate. |